Hugh Bernard Ashton Birch

b- Apr 1889, London England (Reg Hendon Dist, Middlesex Co)
d- Sept 19, 1956, in his cabin at Mocassin Flats, Whitehorse, Yukon, age 67
buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Whitehorse Yukon.
Age 27, widower, Dominion Gov't Telegrapher at Terrace when he married.
son of Walter Bernard Birch (Accountant), b- abt 1864, and Rose (Rosa) Ashton, who married Aug 7, 1888, St. Mary, Finchley,Barnet, England
daughter of Jonas Ashton, she was a professional musician in 1901
both Mother and Father born in London England
Grandfather- Frederick Ketchley Birch
brother- Guy Cyril Ashton Birch age 10 in 1901, who died in Tacoma WA age 63
Hugh came to Canada at age 13
Lived in Calgary AB and then moved to Vancouver BC
Learned to be a landline Telegraph Operator at age 16, in Vancouver BC
He left Vancouver Feb 10, 1910
Worked for the CPR for a few years,
then the Dominion Government Telegraph Service in Northern BC and the Yukon
He worked for 35 years for Dominion, the max allowed.
He worked at 32 different stations
Sept 22, 1941 he arrived in Dawson City for the first time,
He never went back to England.
1911 census shows him at Graveyard Point, shown immigrating in 1897, Dom Gov't Telegraph Operator.
He moved to Whitehorse and was Telegraph Operator up there.
Spent over 10 years at Lower Lake LaBerge stationm until the old line was closed.
He retired 1952 closing the office at the end of the line at Whitehorse
He was living in a little cabin at Lower Lake LaBerge, when he died.
1956 he was a Fire Lookout operator at Haeckel Hill, near Whitehorse, in his 3rd year there.
His winter job was working at Irene's Laundry in Whitehorse

Hugh Ashton Birch
b- ca 1912 in BC (age 9 in 1921)
d- bet July 12 and 14, 1927 one mile west of Notch Hill BC, on the CPR Tracks, age 16
Killed in a gruesome train accident,
He was running away from the Boy's Industrial School at Coquitlam, where he was an inmate from Aug 1925.

Walter Ashton Birch
b- Sept 23, 1913 in Port Simpson BC
d- May 16, 1977, near Hazelton BC, Single Vehicle Car Accident, age 63
Funeral in Prince George
married Elsie Jones Apr 2, 1934, in Vancouver BC
when he died his wife was Agnes Birch of Prince George BC
his ex wife was Letitia Birch, nee Fegan, and they had a son Kenneth “Ken” W. Birch, both alive in 1977 living in Vancouver

Thomas McNames Birch
b- Jan 22, 1916 in Canada (age 5 in 1921)
d- Oct 3, 1979 in San Francisco, USA (in Novato, Marin, CA per other records)
He was alive in 1977, living in San Rafael, Marin, California
age 50 in 1967 when he had trouble with the law
wife- Mildred Birch in 1967